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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   In an earlier thread about free to low cost property, it was mentioned that Kansas has high property taxes, so that might bite you on this silo. Would you take free land in rural America? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   I'm talking more about people who like rules, regulations, organization and order as part of their nature. People who keep their ducks in a row.
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   Microsoft is an enterprise company, has a bureaucratic manner and bureaucratic ways of doing things, for example going all in on the XML craze of the late 1990's and early 2000's. There's a lot of ceremony in their projects,
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   Yes Introduction to Fuchsia components Components are the foundational building blocks of software running in Fuchsia. Each component is a composable, sandboxed module that interacts with other components through capabilities. https:&#x2
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   I read about "Software ICs" in Byte Magazine in the 80's. I later thought COM was a decent try. The implementation and tooling around it was always problematic. People do buy software components off the shelf now, like specia
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   I don't think this argument holds up because robots are rising as humans are falling. The net workers available - muscle or machine, mind or computer - will remain the same or increase. A shrinking number of humans will just have to ge
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   This article was previously discussed 43 days ago with 366 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29587469
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   Holy sh.. that was terrifying. I thought about being a pilot, but decided I couldn't handle flying blind on instrument like that.
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   by mwattsun 5y ago

   That sounds good. I'm charging the batteries of the Oculus and will turn it on tomorrow for the first time in about a year.
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I'll give multiplayer VR a try. Maybe virtually doing fun activities with others is the secret sauce.
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I have high hopes for Apple. Given their reputation for "taste" and design, I would expect something more sophisticated than Meta, not so plug and play. More "Tomorrowland" vs. Meta's "It's a Small, Small
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    That makes sense. Get the gamers to fund what's coming. I bought an Oculus not realizing it was mostly a gaming platform. I'm not complaining at all about games or gamers, but I didn't grow up with games so they're not p
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    Your comment(s) really nails my reservations about VR with my Oculus. After the Wow! factor of a sense immersion, you're in kind of a dead zone trying to think of something interesting to do just like in real life. You went from your r
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I think the best we can do is give our opinion when asked questions like "Hey you know about these things. Is web3 the next evolution of the internet and should I buy in?" "No and no" "You're just mad because y
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I really like solitude but I also have a need for adventure and stories. Meeting random people and talking to them can provide both, like the Mainland Chinese trans woman who I gave a very long ride to San Francisco while she told me all ab
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I was told by the Waymo trainer that Lidar doesn't work in the rain. It certainly rains here.
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I'm curious about Stephen Diehl's assertion that functional may not be the way to go. I'm waiting for him to elaborate. He works in finance, programs mostly in Haskell, and is a fierce web3 critic: After spending nearly a de
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I didn't know this. Why the commercial cars are allowed in civilian traffic when they aren't the best systems? Is it too much to ask Waymo to have the latest and greatest when I put my kids in the robot car to take them to school?
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    Right, retirement job is something casual, non-coding, with no deadline crush. I retired to get away from that.
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    Something part time to do to get out of the house and interact with people. I also like to take road trips to random places in America. Uber and Lyft were perfect for that to earn a little mad money doing something with flexible hours. What
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I saw robo-taxis tooling around Mountain View CA in 2019 so I interviewed at the company to get a safety driver job. I used to see them stopped waiting for a train to pass and became curious about how they worked. They were adding second sa
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I completely understand the fascination with note taking. Most of us don't have photographic memories and look askance at a classmate in college who does well despite never taking notes. What's curious to me is how many note taker
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    The future is notoriously hard to predict and attempting to deliberately shape it with SF seems like a quixotic idea. As the sci-fi writer Algis Budrys put it in the 1960s, the “recurrent strain in ‘Golden Age’ science fiction [was] the im
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    Giant 555 Timer using discrete components https://hackaday.io/project/182863-giant-555-timer
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    If only the shops that fix iPhones could get into the ebike fixing business
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    You should ask user battery management system hacker jacquesm about that because I'm just starting to learn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201673
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    You're not joking. The third link on Google for "bosch battery drm" is Hacker News talking about this. I'm surprised I missed this. "These bikes are DRM'd to the hilt and any attempt at hacking them will cause
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    Are you sure about that? Because the battery management systems are proprietary. I'm just starting to research this, so don't take my word, but I'm pretty sure they take steps to lock you in.
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I love my eBike but the biggest scam about them are the proprietary batteries. Imagine if there weren't AA, AA D, and C batteries but every electrical device you purchased had it's own battery shape and size at marked up prices th
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    by mwattsun 5y ago

    I gave Flutter another try today and was surprised to see it now builds native Windows applications in two flavors, standard and UWP. They don't recommend shipping anything with it yet, but it looks like a good path.